Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation is currently navigating 10 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are handled by 10 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is tasked with more than a single active matter. This ratio between actions and examiners suggests a highly decentralized prosecution process across the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics field.
The company's pending office actions are spread across 8 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical range within their semiconductor-related filings. ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since 8 distinct art units are involved, ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH represents only a small portion of the total examination effort. This diversity across examiners and art units may require the company to address a wide variety of examiner perspectives within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector. The 1 busiest examiner pending action reflects a balanced workload distribution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (45%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | 1 | 57.9% | +47.1% |
| VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 1 | 90.3% | +2.0% |
| TRAN, DZUNG | 1 | 83.6% | +5.7% |
| ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | 1 | 85.1% | +17.9% |
| ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 1 | 71.0% | +11.2% |
| CHEN, JACK S J | 1 | 76.7% | +5.6% |
| BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 1 | 60.9% | +28.5% |
| JUNGE, BRYAN R. | 1 | 58.1% | +8.9% |
| RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 1 | 91.1% | +5.0% |
| NICELY, JOSEPH C | 1 | 77.7% | +19.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18597567 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | — |
| 18421956 | HIGH-VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | TRAN, DZUNG | — |
| 18150106 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18343617 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CHEN, JACK S J | 12d |
| 18680081 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | — |
| 18415613 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM PACKAGE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | — |
| 18215819 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18059265 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | NICELY, JOSEPH C | 14d |
| 18680081 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | — |
| 18415613 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM PACKAGE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | — |
| 18504160 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM PACKAGE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | — |
| 18215819 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2812 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 2891 | 1 |
| 2811 | 1 |
| 2897 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 2813 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680081 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18597567 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18421956 | HIGH-VOLTAGE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | TRAN, DZUNG | 2893 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18415613 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM PACKAGE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | ANDERSON, WILLIAM H | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18504160 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM PACKAGE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | ZARNEKE, DAVID A | 2891 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
| 18343617 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME | CHEN, JACK S J | 2893 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18215819 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF | BEARDSLEY, JONAS TYLER | 2811 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18168321 | OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE | JUNGE, BRYAN R. | 2897 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
| 18150106 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | RAHMAN, KHATIB A | 2818 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 18059265 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME | NICELY, JOSEPH C | 2813 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17968812 | MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM DEVICE AND PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITE STACK THEREOF | SWANSON, ALAINA MARIE | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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